Work
What I've built
Fifteen-plus years building organizations, products, and programs from the ground up — in the nonprofit sector, in consulting, and in technology. The material changes; the job doesn't: align people around a shared vision, build the systems to execute, and deliver in complex environments.
Everyone has felt AI be confidently wrong, forget who they are, and need the same explanation for the tenth time. SolarisAI fixes that structurally: your AI configured to behave on your behalf, grounded in how you actually work. Founder-led and deliberately small — a handful of engagements at a time, each one hands-on.
- Designed and built end-to-end agentic engineering systems — decomposition, delegation, review gates, verification
- Founder-led engagements over self-serve scale, by design
2022 – Present
Switch
Chief Product Officer · previously Chief Revenue Officer
A bootstrapped healthcare staffing marketplace, scaled against VC-backed incumbents.
switchcare.com ↗Switch connects credentialed healthcare professionals with facilities across 7+ states through a pure marketplace model. I joined as the first executive hire — Chief Revenue Officer, during the post-COVID correction — and was promoted to Chief Product Officer in 2024 to oversee the entire platform. Bootstrapped means the product has to speak for itself: everything we build has to generate the revenue that funds the next build and the next market.
- Scaled weekly platform volume from 3,000 to 20,000+ billed hours
- Grew the network from 2,500 to 50,000+ credentialed healthcare professionals
- Expanded from Texas-only to 7+ states, navigating multi-state healthcare regulation including HIPAA
- Built the product, engineering, and design org from scratch — engineers, PMs, DevOps, designers, QA
- Introduced AI/ML across matching, credentialing, scheduling, and fulfillment; agentic credentialing review cut provider onboarding review from ~20 minutes to under one
- Authored the company AI roadmap — governance, training and professional development, pilot projects, internal tooling, and in-app AI products
- As CRO, built the foundation the business runs on — operational systems, market intelligence, customer-facing features, brand, and market positioning
- Led the corporate rebrand from Direct Care Source to Switch
2019 – 2022
THRIVE Partners
Founder & CEO
Strategy consulting for developers, tribal governments, and community organizations.
THRIVE Partners took on projects where progress required aligning parties with competing interests and no shared boss: developers, city officials, funders, tribal governments, and neighborhoods. The developer behind The Uplands brought me in after a community boycott had stalled the project’s entitlements for more than a decade — my job was to diffuse the mobilized opposition and redirect it into real benefits for the community. I simultaneously served as Executive Director of the Uplands Community Collective, advancing housing, jobs, and urban agriculture programs.
- Turned a decade of organized opposition to The Uplands — 250 acres and 2,350 homes, one of Denver’s largest urban in-fill projects — into negotiated community benefits, clearing the way for entitlement approval
- Helped the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe coalesce stakeholders around a long-stalled tribally-owned grocery store in Towaoc — uniting the vision, plan, and details that unlocked $4M+ in first-phase grant funding
- Founded the Uplands Community Collective as a 501(c)(3) and led it as Executive Director through May 2022
2009 – 2019
Re:Vision
Co-Founder & Executive Director
An award-winning nonprofit for food justice and community economic development.
revision.coop ↗Over a decade in southwest Denver, Re:Vision grew from an idea into a nationally recognized organization — built on the conviction that neighborhoods thrive when residents own the economy around them.
- Grew the organization from startup to $3M+ in annual revenue and $5M+ in assets, with a team of 27
- Raised $15M+ — 130+ grant proposals at a 65% success rate, a 2,000+ donor base, crowdfunding, and events
- Built the largest community-led urban agriculture and Promotora program in the country: 2,000+ family gardens producing nearly 1M pounds of organic food
- Acquired two commercial properties and co-led master planning for a $10M mixed-use community development
- Delivered the 2015 TEDxMileHigh keynote, Congressional testimony, and 50+ public presentations
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